Wall

“Good friends don’t always need togetherness…
Do not always need everyday conversation,
as long as the friendship lives in our heart…
It remains forever… “

Friends are friends, they don’t come when we feel happy or we do feel good but they come in our lives in a very surprising way. They enter our lives secretly; they enter our worlds when our very own world is colored black.

I have this very close friend of mine, her name is Charmaine Pearl T. Ardina she is more known as Cheng. She is my classmate when we were still in first year. When I first saw her I thought she was so strict but when I knew her very well I told myself,” Oh! My first impression is wrong.” So after we became close friends, I call her “close-up” then she calls me “colgate”. What have you observed?… Yes, you’re right! We are naming ourselves as toothpaste. Well isn’t that cool? Still when we were in first year we have this another close friend of ours, she is Marie Emilyn Homicillo but everyone calls her Ems or Emi. If Cheng and I call ourselves as “close-up” and “colgate”, then we call Emi as “beam”.

We are three in the group. And we are telling secrets to each other. I am sure you are curious if what kind of secrets are we telling to each other. Well we have our favorite secrets and this is all about boys meaning their crushes but I am excluded because at that time I haven’t met my crush. So in our freshmen year, everyone knows Cheng’s crush but t hey only know Cheng’s one out of two crushes. While Emi, just like Cheng, our classmates know her one out of two crushes. So I guess you already know who are these people but I don’t want to reveal it here just ask them in person.

Of course you can’t achieve true happiness if you haven’t experienced obstacles. Our group experienced this obstacle and this is all about a misunderstanding between my “close-up” and my “beam”. But I will not give you more details about this because this is just between the three of us. Thank God because this conflict ended before the opening of another new school year.

School year 2006-2007 is opened so it is enrollment time. Enrollment in UP high is very exciting, exciting because I don’t know what section will I belong, who is my class adviser and the most thrilling thing is who will be my classmates? When I entered the enrollment room, I saw Mme. Elisa G. Lapa. She is the one assigned to the second years, she is the one who will be telling us if on what section will we belong. When she told me that I was in 2-Palma of course it is fine with me. After knowing my section I directly went to Emi and asked her if on what section will she be then she answered me that she will be a Bentonian meaning she will be in 2-Benton. She is also asked me and I answered that I will be in 2-Palma. Both of us are very sad but I told her that eventhough we are neighbors there is still the friendship that we had. We waited for Cheng but Cheng didn’t arrive so we decided to go. The following day we went to the school so that we will clean our respective classrooms then I saw Cheng in 2-Palma so I felt great because I am not alone. Behind my happiness I saw Emi sad and I went near her and gave her comfort.

So although there is a wall separating us, our friendship is still there having no walls and is still going stronger.